actual facts (and its cousin, true facts)
added bonus/extra
adequate/sufficient enough
a downward plunge
advance warning
appear on the scene
arid desert
attach together
audible click
burn down, burnt up (burn and burnt by themselves are usually better)
circle round, around
collaborate together
connect together
consensus of opinion (it’s simply consensus)
couple together
crisis situation
divide it up, divide off
each and every one
early beginnings
eat up
enclosed herewith, enclosed herein
end result
file away
final completion
final upshot
follow after
forward planning
free gift
funeral obsequies
future prospects
gather together
gale force winds
general consensus
grateful thanks
Have got (a common one, this. Simply have is fine)
the hoi polloi (as hoi means ‘the’, the is obviously redundant)
hoist up
hurry up
important essentials
in between
inside of
indirect allusion
I saw it with my own eyes (who else’s?)
join together
joint cooperation
just recently
lend out
link together
lonely isolation
meet together
merge together
mix together, mix things together
more preferable
mutual cooperation
necessary requisite
new beginner, new beginning
new creation
new innovation, new invention
original source
other alternative
outside of
over with (for ended, finished)
pair of twins
past history
penetrate into
personal friend
polish up
proceed onward
raze to the ground (raze by itself means exactly that)
really excellent
recall back
reduce down
refer back
relic of the past
renew again
repeat again
revert back
rise up
safe haven
seldom ever
set a new world record
settle up
sink down
still continue
sufficient enough
swallow down
this day and age
totally complete
totally finished
tiny little child
unique means the only one of its kind. You can’t get much more unique than that.
Not even quite unique, absolutely unique and utterly unique
unexpected surprise
unite together
unjustly persecuted
usual habit
very pregnant
viable alternative
warm 75 degrees (of course 75 degrees is warm!)
whether or not
widow woman
There are other forms of repetition, some intentional and some not. Writers have often used it for effect, for example in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
Or in this equally famous passage from a speech of Winston Churchill’s:
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength